Unpassive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not passive.

    "[…] he sees Kafka's novels as a plea for moral passivity—which is to miss, among other things, Kafka's occasional strand of subterranean rebelliousness and his quite unpassive humor."

Example

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"[…] he sees Kafka's novels as a plea for moral passivity—which is to miss, among other things, Kafka's occasional strand of subterranean rebelliousness and his quite unpassive humor."

Etymology

From un- + passive.

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